Export 2012 Seminar: Opportunities to grow via overseas trading
MIDLANDS firms have been urged to take advantage of new opportunities for boosting overseas trade.
The Coventry and Warwickshire area chamber of commerce said events arranged during Export Week, which runs until Friday, offer businesses plenty of advice on growing their foreign trade.
Mick Page, who heads the UK Trade & Investment international team at the Coventry and Warwickshire Chamber of Commerce, said companies that export are more likely to survive, be more productive and grow.
He said: “Exporting should not be seen as the cream on the top of regular business activity, it has to become embedded into the core growth strategy of a business.
“The facts show that companies that do export achieve stronger growth than can possibly be achieved if they concentrate solely on the domestic market.
Opportunities to grow via overseas trading is the subject of the Export 2012 Seminar being staged by Barclays and TheBusinessDesk.com on Friday November 30.
UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) adviser Robbie Beak will be joining fellow speakers, Black Country Metals chairman and managing director Peter Mathews and Adrian Bailey, Labour MP for West Bromwich West, at the breakfast event.
The seminar is aimed at firms who are not currently trading their goods and services internationally or those who are but would like to do more.
The event, which will be chaired by TheBusinessDesk.com editor Andy Coyne, will be held at the Latitude Club in the One Snowhill building in central Birmingham and will be an 8am for 8.30 am start. It is expected to finish at around 10.15am.
If you would like to attend the export seminar please send an email to Lisa Kennedy at Barclays at lisa.kennedy@barclays.com
